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Direct linkThomas E. Jones; Lindsay Mack; Oscar A. Gómez – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: As UN's sustainable development goals (SDGs) are integrated across Asia-Pacific Higher Education Institutes (HEIs), the purpose of this descriptive and exploratory study is to investigate undergraduates' own self-stated commitment to the SDGs and their perceived feasibility by the 2030 target. Design/methodology/approach: A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Asians, Colleges
Sugata Sumida – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
Indicator 4.7.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) measures the extent to which Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) are incorporated into educational documents. An appropriate framework is crucial to accurately monitor the level of incorporation, but a framework that can confirm validity is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Global Approach, Citizenship Education
Philip Cardiff; Malgorzata Polczynska; Tina Brown – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Education is widely recognized as a key domain for the promotion of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), prompting an increased focus on sustainable development in foreign language education. Despite increased attention, guidelines about SDGs are often primarily policy-based without concrete guidance, and the integration of education…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Sustainable Development, Second Language Learning, Sustainability
Download full textRobert Sheridan; Kathryn M. Tanaka – TESL-EJ, 2024
With the growing importance of the United Nations' SDGs, many EFL textbooks addressing the goals have been developed. However, these textbooks generally discuss the applicability of the SDGs in Global South countries, and for university students in Japan, this has resulted in "SDG burnout," as they study the topic but often fail to find…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Curriculum Development
Uzama, Austin; Walter, Pierre – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2018
This paper examines the benefits of incorporating ecotourism programs into the adult education curriculum. Social education and lifelong learning ("shougai gakushuu") are terms used to refer to adult education and related activities in Japan. Adult education originated immediately after Second World War with the enactment of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Social Responsibility, Ecology
Tanaka, Haruhiko – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2017
The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) ran from 2005 to 2014. This study concerns the concepts of Sustainable Development (SD) and ESD. The term "sustainable development" was coined by the Brundtland Commission in 1987 as the key word in integrating environment and development. SD achieved international consensus at…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Educational Trends, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development
Ichinose, Tomonori – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2017
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) requires learner-centred and interactive teaching strategies such as critical thinking, participatory decision-making, value-based learning, and multi-method approaches, all of which to some degree contrast traditional lecture-based teaching practices. As there is very little evidence providing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Critical Thinking, Participative Decision Making
